{"id":26945,"date":"2020-11-03T07:18:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T07:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=26945"},"modified":"2020-11-03T07:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T07:18:33","slug":"health-care-workers-families-account-for-one-in-six-covid-19-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=26945","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Workers, Families Account for One in Six COVID-19 Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"News Picture: Health Care Workers, Families Account for One in Six COVID-19 Admissions\" class=\"healthday_image\" src=\"https:\/\/consumer.healthday.com\/media-library\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzM3MDM1Ni9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NjIzNDY1Mn0.ZyZO-jolyS6WIrXGVjTPWYO5uzHj00T__ol_pa72gCg\/image.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Oct. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n<p>Health care workers and their households account for 17.2 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">COVID-19<\/a> admissions in the working-age population, according to a study published online Oct. 28 in <em>The BMJ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anoop S.V. Shah, M.D., from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues examined the risk for hospital admission for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"slide\">COVID-19<\/a> among health care workers aged 18 to 65 years, their households, and other members of the general population in Scotland from March 1 to June 6, 2020. The cohort included 158,445 health care workers (57.3 percent patient-facing) and 229,905 household members.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that 17.2 percent of all hospital admissions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov_symptoms_and_signs\/symptoms.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"sym\">COVID-19<\/a> in the working-age population (18- to 65-year-olds) were in health care workers or their households. The risk for admission due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a> was similar in non-patient-facing health care workers and their households and in the general population (hazard ratio, 0.81 [95 percent confidence interval, 0.52 to 1.26] and 0.86 [95 percent confidence interval, 0.49 to 1.51], respectively) after adjustment for confounding variables. However, patient-facing health care workers and their family members had an increased risk compared with non-patient-facing health care workers (hazard ratios, 3.30 [95 percent confidence interval, 2.13 to 5.13] and 1.79 [95 percent confidence interval, 1.10 to 2.91]).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High quality prospective studies evaluating new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/prevention\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">prevention<\/a> and control practices will be important to guide improvements in our approach to protecting health care workers and their families,&#8221; write the authors of an accompanying editorial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/371\/bmj.m3582\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/371\/bmj.m3944\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physician&#8217;s Briefing Staff<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2020 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=248424\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, Oct. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) Health care workers and their households account for 17.2 percent of COVID-19 admissions in the working-age population, according to a study published online Oct. 28 in The BMJ. Anoop S.V. Shah, M.D., from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues examined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1601354401_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}